Socket for casters



W. H. NOELTING.

SOCKET FOR CASTERS. APPLICATION FlLED JULY 28, I919.

1,346,239. Patented July 13, 1920.

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.. UNITED- s'rarss PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM=H. NQELTINTG; OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA; ASSIGNOR' TC FAULTLESS. GASTER COMPANY-,OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA,A-GORBORATION.

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To all 107mm it mag] concern:

Be .itknown that I, W'ILL AM H. NonL'rrNc, a citizen oftheUnited States, and a resident of Evansville, county of'van'derburg, and State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and usefulSocket for Casters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals refer to like parts.

The object of this invention is to provide a satisfactory caster construction for the leg of a phonograph cabinet, or like furniture. One feature of the invention consists in the combination with the leg of a phonographic cabinet or the like, of a socket for the stem of the castor with the lower end f the socket turned outwardly, and a ferrule covering the lower end of the leg of the cabinet through which the socket extends, and a plate surrounding and secured to the socket and resting between the flange at the lower end. of the socket and the leg of the furniture, and being provided with a number of relatively long sharp prongs adapted to extend through said ferrule and penetrate the wood of the leg of the phonograph cabinet or the like and secure said ferrule and also the socket thereto.

The full nature of the invention will be understood from the accompanying drawings and the following description and claims.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a caster with the socket and plate on the stern. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a central vertical section through the socket and plate and the lower part of the leg of the phonograph cabinet. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the socket and holding plate on a plane at right angles to the section plane of Fig. 2. Fig. f is a section on the line i4e of Fig. 3.

There is shown herein a caster having a' caster wheel 10, a rivet 11 for mounting it on the arms 12 of an apron 13. The caster stem 14 is at its lower end secured to the apron, and this may be accomplished by upsetting the lower end of the stem on the under side of the apron 13 and providing a shoulder 15 on the stern upon the apron, although this invention is not limited to the particular construction of the foregoing parts.

The caster stemat its upper end is pro- Speeification of Letters Patent.

Application rua July as, 1919. Serial No. 313,836."

Patented July-18, 1920.

videclwith a roun'd-likehead 16, with a re ducedportionfor neck 17. Thesocket 18, when completed, is tubular and just large eno'u'glrto receive the stem 1 1, andthe upper end of the so'cket'is provided .witlr'a pair of oppositely locatedtongucs 19 curved in wardly in concave-convex form to lie in the contracted'neck portion li'and prevent the escape of the headof the caster stem, and therefore the escape of the caster, eX cept when force is applied to the latter for removing the ,caster and stem! from the union thereof with the socket and leg of the cabinet.

g The socket is herein shown as formed of a single strip of metal bent midway of its ends and its two ends brought together, and being semi-circular in cross section the two ends form a tubular socket with the seam line 20. The tongues 19 are punched in the middle of the metal strip before it is bent to form the socket, and at that stage they extend laterally and from the middle of the strip of. metal. Consequently when the socket is formed the tongues are in line with the seam lines 20, although the invention is not necessarily limited to the details of the foregoing construction.

The lower end of the leg of the cabinet is covered by a ferrule or cap 40 through which the socket 14: extends. A plate 21 in annular shape, as shown in Fig. 4, fits or is slipped over the end of the socket 141: and fits snugly thereon under the ferrule 40. Said plate is held on the socket by outwardly flaring the lower end of the socket to form an annular laterally extending flange 23, after the plate 21 is in place on the socket, and therefore the flange supports the plate 21 and also clamps it and the upwardly extending collar 22 against a plurality of projections 2% formed in or extending from the socket so as to extend outwardly, as shown in Fig. 2. ln this economical manner the plate 21 is secured to the socket.

The plate 21 has a plurality of long prongs 25 extending upwardly from its margin. There are four prongs shown and they are preferably integral with the plate 21 and stamped out at the time the plate is formed and afterward bent upwardly, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. They are relatively long so that when the socket is inserted in the leg of the cabinet the prongs 25 will extend through the ferrule or cap 40 and when substantially as shown in Fig. 2, will secure the ferrule 40 and also the socket 18 to the leg of the cabinet, thus performing a double function in an economical and effective manner which has met with great favor and success.

.The invention claimed is: r r

1. A tubular socket for the stem of a caster for the wooden leg of acabinet or the like, a ferrule to cover the end of said leg, and an annular plate surrounding'the lower part of said socket and secured thereto and provided with long upwardly extending prongs which are adapted to extend through said ferrule and penetrate the legand secure thereto said. ferrule and socket.

.2. .A tubular socket for the. stem of a caster for the wooden leg of a cabinet or the a central opening and upwardly extending collar to' surround the lower part of the socket and with long prongs extending upwardly from the outer edge of the plate and a through said ferrule and adapted to be driven into the lower end of the leg of a cabinet; the lowerend of the socket having an outwardly turned flange which secures said plate and the collar thereof on said socket between said flange andthe projection from the socket above the collar on said plate. p i V --'In"witness{ whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature. t

,WIL' IAMfH. NoELTme; 

